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Horse Creek, C. N. [Cherokee Nation] Oct. 19th 1864 My own Dear Wife. It gives me the greatest of pleasure to call you My Dear Wife as well as write you words of Love & tender affection; And that such would always be the case with me has often been my wish & prayer. I am happy to report to you that I enjoy pretty good health again. ie. I am not well yet but much better than I have been when I left Ft. Smith [Arkansas]. which was on Friday Oct. 7th. Up to that time I did not gain much, and was many of the convalescent soldiers of Kansas Reg. were about to go to Kansas to recruit their health, with the Refugee Train that was then starting out for Ft. Scott [Kansas]; Dr Root of our Reg. [2nd Kansas Cavalry] concluded to send also ten of our Reg. and myself one of the number. Thinking that we would not be fit for duty this fall & our time being so near out we were sent on. We are getting along pretty well but very slow, we average only about 12 miles a day.

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Cherokee County, Kansas; Bourbon County, Kansas; Sebastian County, Arkansas; Muskogee County, Oklahoma; Craig County, Oklahoma

Horse Creek, C. N. [Cherokee Nation] Oct. 19th 1864 My own Dear Wife. It gives me the greatest of pleasure to call you My Dear Wife as well as write you words of Love & tender affection; And that such would always be the case with me has often been my wish & prayer. I am happy to report to you that I enjoy pretty good health again. ie. I am not well yet but much better than I have been when I left Ft. Smith [Arkansas]. which was on Friday Oct. 7th. Up to that time I did not gain much, and was many of the convalescent soldiers of Kansas Reg. were about to go to Kansas to recruit their health, with the Refugee Train that was then starting out for Ft. Scott [Kansas]; Dr Root of our Reg. [2nd Kansas Cavalry] concluded to send also ten of our Reg. and myself one of the number. Thinking that we would not be fit for duty this fall & our time being so near out we were sent on. We are getting along pretty well but very slow, we average only about 12 miles a day.